Tag Archives: competition

Ten Take-Aways from the World Cities Summit 2016

By Renard Teipelke It is for sure not comprehensive to distill ten take-aways from the World Cities Summit, which takes place every two years, brings together more than 1,000 delegates, and is co-hosted together with the International Water Week and … Continue reading

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Livable Cities Rankings: Quality of Life Has Its Price

By Renard Teipelke I am sure combined rankings exist. Rankings where cities are evaluated and scored for both their quality of living and their cost of living. But generally, the leading rankings of “livable cities” do not concern themselves much … Continue reading

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Reblogged: A world without the Global Minotaur: Why is the world economy failing to recover?

Originally posted on Yanis Varoufakis:
Almost two years have passed since the first edition of The Global Minotaur was written. Its prognosis for our tormented beast was not good. Have events since confirmed that the Global Minotaur’s wounds were too…

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Holland Art Cities: cooperation as competitive advantage

by Hans Pul Especially since the Place Branding Conference of last month, the concepts competition and cooperation have been the theme of some recent posts on this blog*. In this post I will follow-up on this topic and discuss some aspects … Continue reading

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